Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Commerce - Taxation

Curtin University

This double degree is ideal if you want to combine the ability to practise law with vital knowledge of current legal and regulatory business environments. It offers a wide range of legal and business career options. It prepares you for practising law with a business industry focus, such as commercial law, corporate law or employment law. You'll also gain business knowledge and practical skills specific to your chosen major, which can offer you career paths as diverse as accountancy and tax, business consultancy, economics and finance, compliance and auditing, and human resources. Develop real-world experience before you graduate. Learn how work-integrated learning helps you build career skills and connect with industry early.This double degree prepares you for legal practice and gives you vital knowledge of legal and regulatory business environments.The first three years of this course are delivered in semesters at Curtin Perth, while the fourth year, plus one trimester, is delivered at Curtin Law School at our Perth City campus. If you choose to study full-time, you can graduate with two degrees in just 4.5 years. While studying in Perth city, you can gain practical experience by undertaking simulated proceedings in our high-tech moot court and working on real cases at the John Curtin Law Clinic. You’ll benefit greatly from the relationships you will form with academics, practising solicitors and barristers based at Curtin Law School, as well as from the proximity of the Supreme Court, the District Court and the Federal Court.Curtin’s Bachelor of Laws offers a rich and professionally relevant coverage of foundational areas of legal knowledge as well as developing the core skills essential to effective legal practice. It will give you a professional legal qualification allowing you admission to practise as a lawyer, including the giving of legal advice and appearing in court. It will also give you a strong commercial awareness and the opportunity to focus on industry.When paired with the taxation major this course is strongly commercially focused, and has an emphasis on industry connectedness and innovative teaching, with students being exposed from early in their studies to the culture, community and ethics of tax and legal practice. In their second and third years of study, students will study in trimesters, enabling them to complete 300 credits in each year. Overall, students can complete the equivalent of 4 years of academic study in three calendar years.

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